Cultivation, at the very least, while one is still at the ranks of a Great Mage or below, has some similarities to working out.

Muscles are built and expanded because of the micro tears in the muscle fibers, making the muscles stronger and bigger than before.

With Claude being on the brink of death and rapidly recovering, it was as if he made micro tears in his muscles to train them, resulting in his current breakthrough.

It was both a coincidence and logical. Fortune aura cannot make the impossible happen, as it still relies on logic.

An ant could not kill a dragon using their own power, and even Fortune Aura could not change that.

With Claude's breakthrough to the high-cycle Senior Mage, he could sense the Eclipsion Realm urging him to destroy the other large bandit camps.

In the past, Claude would have wanted to continue relying on his own power to make that possible, which means after seeing how powerful a Great Mage was, he would not act rashly again in the meantime.

However, with the Eclipsion Realm helping him with his breakthrough, he decided to repay the realm.

"The town has suffered long enough because of these bandits. I will free them" Claude declared, and true to his words, after just a few days of rest and consolidating his current realm, he went out to annihilate the two large bandit groups and even the other smaller bandit groups.

This time, their destruction was even faster and easier since Claude didn't only rely on his own power.

He used his Noblesse Artifact to annihilate a group in one go. Any being below the Noble Mage are ants, and a Noblesse Artifact can only be defended against by a Noble Mage or by another Noblesse Artifact

In this realm where the strongest beings are only at the Great Mage rank, Claude, with his Noblesse Artifact, is invincible!

At this moment, Claude stood at the location of the once Poison Ivy Team, one of the three large bandit groups.

With one cast of [Call of Ten Thousand Lightning], the bandit group was completely annihilated. It does not matter if they are a Junior, Senior, or even a Senior Mage. All were killed easily by his Noblesse Artifact.

With the destruction of this bandit group, Claude's fortune aura was at an all-time high, and the connection he has with the realm grew closer than before.

Just by being in the Eclision Realm, he can sense whether a creature is a native or not. In the past, this relied on his own judgment of the other person's temperament.

But now, as long as he is inside the Eclipsion Realm, by instinct alone, he could sense if someone has the realm's imprint and is a native. As for those who do not have the realm's imprint, it naturally means that they are not natives.

It was hard to fathom how a non-native was favored by the Eclipsion Realm this much, but as of the moment, whether it be Claude or his Master, they are still unaware of the reason.

They can only take things step by step. In any case, the fortune aura helps Claude grow stronger, and all schemes could be shattered when one has enough power.

"The Eclipsion Realm… It's urging me to purge the other invaders."

With the rise of Claude's fortune aura and connection to the Eclipsion Realm, he could now sense the realm's intention even clearer than before, and he unconsciously clenched his fist.

"This… this connection is starting to resemble the connection I had with the Earth Realm."

Claude remembered the original fate that he would have had if he were successful in saving his birth realm.

A state of not dead but just merely existing… it was a dreadful fate, but it was something that he could accept if it was what would keep the Earth Realm alive and help recover it.

However, it doesn't mean that such a fate is what he wanted to have. The growing connection he has with the Eclipsion Realm is starting to resemble his connection with the Earth Realm, and this is making him a bit uncomfortable.

"So be it. I shall free this realm and go to a different realm" Claude decided with a sigh.

With a Noblesse Artifact, he could annihilate the invaders, and once the realm is free, he could leave.

He finds the growing connection he has with the Eclipsion Realm uncomfortable, and it feels like the start of the new fate he has gained. He doesn't like it.

As such, he doesn't want to stay in this realm for long, and after destroying the bandits around the town, he moved to his next targets,

With the connection he had with the realm, he could sense where most of the non-natives were staying, and he killed any he had encountered.

With a Noblesse Artifact in hand, he swept through one enemy base after another. Even large cities fall, and as of the moment, only the capital was barely holding on.

This was not because there are more Great Mages in the capital. After all, no matter how many Great Mages there are, a Noblesse Artifact that holds only a Noble Mage's power when not wielded by them is more than enough to crush numbers.

The only reason the capital was still standing and resisting is because of the formation that the Noble Mage left behind.

In case the natives were to grow strong enough to annihilate their enslavers, the barrier is there to protect to capital and buy some time until the Noble Mage arrives.

After all, just because the natives can kill the slave traders inside the city doesn't mean that they could also kill a Noble Mage.

"This city's defense is too strong" Claude muttered after seeing the city endure a round of his Noblesse Artifact's [Call of Ten Thousand Lightning].

They were even starting to counterattack, as magic from mages as well as cannons were fired at him.

The only fortunate thing was that although the formation in the capital has strong defense, it does not have any attacking power.

All attacks that came from the slave traders came from the spells their own mages cast, as well as the various defensive cannons of the city.

However, whether it be the spells or the cannons, they all only have the power of a Great Mage and below.

In the face of a defensive shield created by a Noblesse Artifact, such attacks are not strong enough.

Unless they can shatter the shield in one go or exceed the rate at which the Noblesse Artifact was using the surrounding mana to maintain the barrier, they are bound to never even be able to touch the hem of Claude's clothes.

The world has always been stronger than the power of a single person. The essence of a Noble Mage is the ability to use the mana on their surroundings, aside from their own mana, to unleash devastating attacks.

Even a Great Mage on their own has limited mana and power output. However, a Noble Mage, with their ability to communicate with the world and control the ambient mana, can use the power of more than just one person.

Facing a Noble Mage is like facing the power of an entire territory.

The rate at which the Noblesse Artifact is absorbing the ambient mana to keep the defensive shield active and even let Claude use the [Call of Ten Thousand Lightning] was faster compared to the consumption.

As such, it was only a matter of time before Claude could break the defensive formation and slaughter all the slave traders.

"Stop! Who are you?"

"Why are you doing this?!"

"We are subordinates of a Noble Mage! Even if you are also a subordinate of a Noble Mage, there is no need to fight!"

"We have already notified the Noble Mage on our side. You should retreat now while you still have time!"

The slave traders started to try to intimidate Claude using the name of a Noble Mage. They are aware that with Claude's Noblesse Artifact, it was only a matter of time before the city's formation would be destroyed.

When that time comes, no one could resist, and these slave traders are not confident of being able to last until their Noble Mage arrives.

First off, no one knows where the Noble Mage is. Even with warping, if he were in a very faraway realm, it might take him days or even weeks before arriving.

Not to mention, there is a chance that he might be in seclusion.

Even Great Mages have a lifespan of around a thousand years, and they can enter seclusion for years. A Noble Mage's lifespan is many times longer than that of a Great Mage. As such, their seclusion often takes decades or even centuries.

If the Noble Mage was in seclusion, even the fall of the slave traders might not be enough to force the Noble Mage to prematurely stop their cultivation.